Eemaata, eemaata, yuvarajula sye aata... (What a pleasure it is, this dance of the princes...) Thus is going the preferred tune that very best encapsulates the essence of Sadar competition aka Telangana's very personal 'Dunnapothula Panduga'. Its English translation, 'Buffalo Carnival of Telangana' doesn't relatively have the similar ring someway. That's but even so the point although. For this competition is a party of the buffaloes — the 'dancing princes' that the aforementioned traces of the Sadar tune extol. And the big name enchantment of this year's festivities had been the magnificent Murrah quartet — Raja, Dara, Maharaja and Shahenshah — each weighing neatly over 1,200 pounds!
As their proud handlers rave concerning the USP of these hulking bulls, your jaw drops in amazement. "The 4-year-old Raja weighs close to 1300 kg and is a 12-time National Livestock Champion. Maharaja, 6, from Chevella is a 6ft 2 inch-tall 1400-kg alpha male who makes for a breathtaking sight. Then there is Dara, son of the 24-time National Livestock Champion, Yuvraj, who's fathered over 2,00,000 calves. Like his massive father, Dara tips the scales over 1,300 kgs. And the most expensive of them all is four-and-a-half year old Shahenshah who towers at a staggering 7 ft and weighs a whopping 1500 kilos," say brothers Mahesh Yadav and Madhukar Yadav,
organisers of the Sadar festivities that have been held in Srinagar Colony on Friday night.
Bred and raised in Hyderabad, Shahenshah is hailed as the satisfaction of Telangana by way of E Haribabu Yadav, state common secretary, All India Yadav Mahasabha. "Recently a buyer offered `25 crore to buy Shahenshah but his owner Ahmed Alam Khan refused to sell," says Haribabu, including, "Shahenshah was bred and groomed with the intention of beating the celebrated super bull Yuvraj of Hissar (Haryana)," says Haribabu who organised the Sadar festivities in Musheerabad on Saturday night.
And it kind of feels like he is already living as much as expectations. Shahenshah recently entered the report books as the 'World's Most Expensive Bull'. "Shahenshah is among the finest specimens of the murrah breed of
buffalos this is ethnic to India. Standing 7 toes tall and 15 toes lengthy, this bull is the satisfaction of India," says Suman Palle, CEO, High Range Book of World Records.
"The price of a bull is determined by the value of it's semen which is much in demand. Each ejaculation fetches anywhere between `1,00,000 to `1,50,000. Hundreds of doses are prepared from the semen discharged during every ejaculation which is frozen in liquid nitrogen and sold to dairy farmers," explains Ahmed Aalam Khah.
These bulls lead a charmed life certainly. "We spend about `4,000- `5,000 every day. They are given oil baths three times a day and it has a couple of attendants looking after it all day. Shahenshah drinks 30-40 litres of milk mixed with raw eggs every day. It's diet consists of 100-150 apples, laddus made of kaju, pista, badam and dates, concentrates, green grass and hay."
As their proud handlers rave concerning the USP of these hulking bulls, your jaw drops in amazement. "The 4-year-old Raja weighs close to 1300 kg and is a 12-time National Livestock Champion. Maharaja, 6, from Chevella is a 6ft 2 inch-tall 1400-kg alpha male who makes for a breathtaking sight. Then there is Dara, son of the 24-time National Livestock Champion, Yuvraj, who's fathered over 2,00,000 calves. Like his massive father, Dara tips the scales over 1,300 kgs. And the most expensive of them all is four-and-a-half year old Shahenshah who towers at a staggering 7 ft and weighs a whopping 1500 kilos," say brothers Mahesh Yadav and Madhukar Yadav,
organisers of the Sadar festivities that have been held in Srinagar Colony on Friday night.
Bred and raised in Hyderabad, Shahenshah is hailed as the satisfaction of Telangana by way of E Haribabu Yadav, state common secretary, All India Yadav Mahasabha. "Recently a buyer offered `25 crore to buy Shahenshah but his owner Ahmed Alam Khan refused to sell," says Haribabu, including, "Shahenshah was bred and groomed with the intention of beating the celebrated super bull Yuvraj of Hissar (Haryana)," says Haribabu who organised the Sadar festivities in Musheerabad on Saturday night.
And it kind of feels like he is already living as much as expectations. Shahenshah recently entered the report books as the 'World's Most Expensive Bull'. "Shahenshah is among the finest specimens of the murrah breed of
buffalos this is ethnic to India. Standing 7 toes tall and 15 toes lengthy, this bull is the satisfaction of India," says Suman Palle, CEO, High Range Book of World Records.
"The price of a bull is determined by the value of it's semen which is much in demand. Each ejaculation fetches anywhere between `1,00,000 to `1,50,000. Hundreds of doses are prepared from the semen discharged during every ejaculation which is frozen in liquid nitrogen and sold to dairy farmers," explains Ahmed Aalam Khah.
These bulls lead a charmed life certainly. "We spend about `4,000- `5,000 every day. They are given oil baths three times a day and it has a couple of attendants looking after it all day. Shahenshah drinks 30-40 litres of milk mixed with raw eggs every day. It's diet consists of 100-150 apples, laddus made of kaju, pista, badam and dates, concentrates, green grass and hay."
Lo and behold the magnificient murrahs of Telangana
![Lo and behold the magnificient murrahs of Telangana]()
Reviewed by Kailash
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October 23, 2017
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